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This Baltimore Orioles Sweepless Streak is Absurd

The Baltimore Orioles beat the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night, extending their already impressive streak of not getting swept in a series to 86 straight.
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This Baltimore Orioles Sweepless Streak is Absurd
This Baltimore Orioles Sweepless Streak is Absurd

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The Baltimore Orioles beat the St. Louis Cardinals 11-5 on Monday as Cedric Mullins fueled the victory with his 14th home run of the year - a grand slam.

The win moved the O's to 91-52 on the season. They remain the best team in the American League and are on track for the No. 1 seed in the looming American League playoffs.

Also impressive was that by winning a game against the Cardinals, the Orioles guarantee themselves of not being swept, which continues to add to their resume in baseball history.

Per Sarah Langs of MLB.com:

most consecutive series of 2+ games without being swept: 

1942-44 Cardinals: 125 

1903-05 Giants: 106 

2022-pres. Orioles: 86 ** active streak extended w/STL series 

1922-24 Yankees: 83 

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The O's last made the playoffs in 2016. That drought is virtually guaranteed to end this season and the O's are also very capable of making a deep run into the playoffs.

They have won eight of their last 10 games and own a .636 winning percentage. It's also impressive that they've done this in the American League East, thought by many to be the best division in baseball heading into the season.

The Orioles will take on the Cardinals again on Tuesday night. First pitch from Camden Yards is set for 6:35 p.m. ET as Adam Wainwright (STL) goes against John Means.

Wainwright enters play with 198 career wins and is trying to get to 200 while Means is making his first start since April of 2022 as he comes back from Tommy John surgery.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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